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Subject: Re: FRC-rankinglist: Smarthink 017a final result

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 05:31:14 03/16/04

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On March 16, 2004 at 08:17:25, Uri Blass wrote:

>On March 16, 2004 at 08:03:04, Joachim Rang wrote:
>
>>On March 16, 2004 at 05:34:58, Mimic wrote:
>>
>>>If List is a big clone of Cryft , Why List have a better score in FRC ??
>>
>>everyone agrees (even Uri) that it is unlikely (though not impossible) that List
>>is a crafty-clone.
>>
>>regards Joachim
>
>I do not think that there is an agreement about it.
>I hope that people can usually say about programs without free source code that
>it is unlikely that they are crafty-clone and be right(but maybe I am too
>optimistic) but the case of List is different.
>
>After it was taken out of a tournament because of some evidence that it was
>crafty clone the programmer needs to prove that it is not a crafty
>clone(otherwise I cannot say that it is unlikely that list is a crafty clone).
>
>Uri


sorry I thought that there were an agrrement. I thought the doubts were about
whether it was justified to exclude List from the WC or not and not about the
fact whether it is a clone or not. I was mistaken.

regards Joachim



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